In late April, the sixth Yard House restaurant opened in the new I-Drive 360 entertainment and shopping complex on International Dr. in Orlando in Central Florida. Yard House is a chain of restaurant/bars that features a large selection of draft beers and an American-style menu of appetizers, salads, pastas, sandwiches, tacos, grilled burgers, pizzas, seafood, steaks and ribs. Currently there are over 50 locations in about 19 states and plans call for the chain’s entry into the South Carolina market later this year with an 8000 square foot restaurant in the Magnolia Park center in Greenville. The chain of casual restaurants is also opening its second location in Virginia later this year in the redeveloped Springfield Town Center in Springfield along with its third in Texas, at the Village on the Parkway center in North Dallas. Openings are also scheduled for Portland, Oregon and Tucson, Arizona in 2014. The concept takes its name from the three foot tall glass containers originally designed in Great Britain and used to hand stagecoach drivers after a long journey by horse drawn carriage. In mid-2012, the then 39-unit chain was acquired by Darden Restaurants Inc. for about $585-million.
CATEGORY: Restaurant/Bar
Chain Name: Yard House
Company Name: Yard House USA Inc.
Street Address: 7700 Irvine Center Dr., Suite 300, Irvine, California 92618
Tel: 800/336-5336 Fax: 949/727-0831
Email: realestate@yardhouse.con & yhguestrelations@darden.com
Website: www.yardhouse.com
Menu Specialty: American-style menu of appetizers, salads, pastas, sandwiches, tacos, grilled burgers, pizzas, seafood, steaks and ribs and a wide choice of beers on draft.
Introduced: Introduced by Steele Platt and partners Harald Herrmann and Carlito Jocson in late 1996 on the Long Beach waterfront in Southern California. Yard House USA Inc. was acquired by Darden Restaurants Inc. in mid-2012.
No. of Locations: Over 50 in 19 states
Areas of Operation: National
Types of Location:
BusinessType (corp., franchise, jv): Corporate
Size Req’d: 8000 to 14,000 sq.ft.
Special Requirements (patio, drive-thru, etc):
Contact Name: Harald Hermann – President, Specialty Restaurant Group, Darden Restaurants
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FRANCHISE REPRESENTATIVES:
PARENT COMPANY: Darden Restaurants Inc., P.O. Box 695011, Orlando, Florida 32869-5011 (407/245-4000 www.darden.com)
Related Chains: Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, The Capital Grille, Eddie V’s.
Last Report: Restaurant & QSR Expansion Report #115 Last Update:
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